Hi Keith, I worked a lot on this issue during the Nepal 2015 response.
What you propose sounds great. We had a lot of difficulty trying to do this via the tasking manager for several reasons. I would love to speak with you more about it, maybe we could chat via skype. Cheers, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected] On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Keith Darby <[email protected]> wrote: > All: > > I am a retired Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot, and a current Masters Candidate > in GIS Technologies at USC. > > I am working on my thesis, which is based on the premise that crowd-sourced > geospatial information, if properly structured, could aid aircrews in > surveying potential HLZs for disaster response. > > The work flow would be as follows: > > (1) Helicopter planners and aircrews would select potential HLZs in a > disaster-affected region, using whatever mission planning GISystem at their > disposal (normally baed on remote sensing data) > > (2) Those proposed HLZs would be uploaded to OSM. > > (3) Volunteers could select one of those HLZs and conduct a ground-truth > survey, following a script (that I would develop). > > (4) Those surveys would be uploaded to OSM and validated. > > (5) the Helicopter mission planners and aircrews could use those surveys to > select the best zones for disaster relief operations. > > I am looking at using the towns of Honokaa and Waimea on the northern end of > the Big Island of Hawaii as my study area, as I live close by, and I have the > local Community Emergency Response Team (volunteers) willing to support. > > Who do I need to talk to about getting HOT permission to conduct a limited > objective study in this area? > > Thanks, > > Keith Darby > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
